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Author Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , Shane Harvie , Jay Fields
The Definitive Refactoring Guide, Fully Revamped for RubyWith refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a serie....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Author Kent Beck
“Kent is a master at creating code that communicates well, is easy to understand, and is a pleasure to read. Every chapter of this book contains excellent explanations and insights into the smaller but important decisions we continuously have to make when creating q....
Release Date 2007/10 -
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition
Author Cynthia Andres , Kent Beck
“In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years’ worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of im....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Kent Beck
JUnit, created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, is an open source framework for test-driven development in any Java-based code. JUnit automates unit testing and reduces the effort required to frequently test code while developing it.While there are lots of bits of docu....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins
Author Kent Beck , Erich Gamma
"Even long-time Eclipse committers will be surprised by the breadth and depth of this book. A must-read for every new Eclipse extender."--Andre Weinand, Eclipse CommitterContributing to Eclipse offersA quick step-by-step tutorial. Have your first plug-in running in ....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Test Driven Development: By Example
Author Kent Beck
Clean code that works--now. This is the seeming contradiction that lies behind much of the pain of programming. Test-driven development replies to this contradiction with a paradox--test the program before you write it.A new idea? Not at all. Since the dawn of compu....
Release Date 2002/11 -
Author Martin Fowler , Kent Beck
"XP is the most important movement in our field today. I predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as the S.E.I. and its Capability Maturity Model were to the last." --From the foreword by Tom DeMarco The hallmarks of Extreme Programming--consta....
Release Date 2000/10 -
Author Kent Beck
Software development projects can be fun, productive, and even daring. Yet they can consistently deliver value to a business and remain under control.Extreme Programming (XP) was conceived and developed to address the specific needs of software development conducted....
Release Date 1999/10 -
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Author Don Roberts , William Opdyke , Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , John Brant
As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienc....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Author Kent Beck
This classic book is the definitive real-world style guide for better Smalltalk programming. This author presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers have learned the hard way. When programmers understand thes....
Release Date 1996/10